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Teachers, Further Training of: Since the 19th century, further training for teachers has been supported by means of professional magazines, improvement of teachers´ libraries, summer courses and scholarships. The Paedagogium, a further training institution, was founded in Vienna in 1868, followed by the Pedagogical Institute of the City of Vienna founded in 1923; in Lower Austria a teachers´ academy was founded in 1905. After 1945 further training of teachers mostly took the form of seminars; following the adoption of the School Legislation of 1962, pedagogical and Berufspaedagogische Institute on the level of academies were founded in all Austrian provinces and were merged in 1983.